Directive Speech Acts in English and Spanish Filmspeak
The main aim of the study is to ascertain contrastively, in English and Spanish, how directive speech acts are represented in film discourse. For the purpose of the investigation, the directive speech acts of 24 films, 12 in English and 12 in Spanish, were extracted and analysed. A classification ta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Pragmática Sociocultural |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/soprag-2020-0001 |